To much power??

newgeneral01

newgeneral01

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I recently sent out my main OCZ 850 watt PSU for RMA. The only thing i have left was a 500 watt. I thought for sure my system would not run off a 500watt PSU. So i plugged it in and seems to work just fine. So i take it that a 500watt has enough to power it, or is it in some sort of energy saving mode?

Im currently running Q6600 oc 2.8GHz - 4gb ram - 2x 8800GTS 640mb - 2x 500gb SATA - x2 dvd rw - sound card - tv tuner - massive Asus artic square, 2x 120mm, 1x 140mm, 1x 80mm with my g 11 keyboard
 
What 500W PSU?

Keep in mind that there's a real difference between powering it for a few days or weeks, and powering it for years without hiccups.
 
newgeneral01 said:
I recently sent out my main OCZ 850 watt PSU for RMA. The only thing i have left was a 500 watt. I thought for sure my system would not run off a 500watt PSU. So i plugged it in and seems to work just fine. So i take it that a 500watt has enough to power it, or is it in some sort of energy saving mode?

Im currently running Q6600 oc 2.8GHz - 4gb ram - 2x 8800GTS 640mb - 2x 500gb SATA - x2 dvd rw - sound card - tv tuner - massive Asus artic square, 2x 120mm, 1x 140mm, 1x 80mm with my g 11 keyboard
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No, but if it's an crappy 500W model, get an replacement. If it has around 30A + amps, great. The manufacturer please?
 
500W should be just enough for that system. One 640MB 8800GTS consumes 60Watts of power when idle and 105 W under load. I had an 8800GTS sli system with Intel E6600 and 2GB of RAM and total system load was just above 300W, when idle though. When under load it approaches 400 Watts.
 
And I have a 1000W Ultra X3 powering an AMD X64 FX62, one hard drive, one optical drive, one sound card, and one 8600GTS. Overkill? You betcha.

But the power supply was bundled with the CPU for steal-me prices. I couldn't resist. And if I ever want to install water cooling and dual-SLI, I can.
 
I wouldn't count on the V-Series 500W running with that sort of load indefinitely, but with any luck it should do the job until you get your replacement.
 
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